What this Privacy Policy Covers
Sourcing Factory takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
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How Sourcing Factory Uses Your Personal Information
This policy covers how Sourcing Factory treats personal information that Sourcing Factory collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Sourcing Factory products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable such as your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
This privacy policy only applies to Sourcing Factory. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Sourcing Factory does not own or control, or to people that Sourcing Factory does not employ or manage.
Information Collection and Use
Sourcing Factory collects personal information when you register with Sourcing Factory, when you use Sourcing Factory products or services, when you visit Sourcing Factory pages or the pages of certain Sourcing Factory partners, and when you enter promotions. Sourcing Factory may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, ZIP code, phone number, and company affiliation. When you register with Sourcing Factory and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
Sourcing Factory collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of services that we offer.
Sourcing Factory automatically receives and records information from your computer and browser, including your IP address, Sourcing Factory cookie information, software and hardware attributes, and the pages you request.
Sourcing Factory uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Sourcing Factory does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
• We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Sourcing Factory under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Sourcing Factory communicate with you about offers from Sourcing Factory and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
• We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Sourcing Factory's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
• We transfer information about you if Sourcing Factory is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Sourcing Factory will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• Sourcing Factory displays targeted advertisements based on personal information and/or usage of the system. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria—for example, people from a particular geographic area who purchase specific services.
• Sourcing Factory does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
• Sourcing Factory works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.
Cookies
Sourcing Factory may set and access Sourcing Factory cookies on your computer.
Sourcing Factory lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Sourcing Factory's cookies.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
You can edit your Sourcing Factory account information, including your marketing preferences, at any time.
New categories of marketing communications might be added to the Marketing Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.
We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Sourcing Factory service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Sourcing Factory Newsletter, that are considered part of your Sourcing Factory account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
You can delete your Sourcing Factory account by visiting our account deletion page. Some information such as archived bid events might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.
Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Sourcing Factory may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Sourcing Factory account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Questions and Suggestions
If you have questions or suggestions, please contact Sourcing Factory support.
Thank you for using Sourcing Factory!
Effective Date: September 23, 2009
